Architectural styles of curiosity in global Wikipedia mobile app readership

D Zhou, S Patankar, DM Lydon-Staley, P Zurn… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
Intrinsically motivated information seeking is an expression of curiosity believed to be central
to human nature. However, most curiosity research relies on small, Western convenience …

Role of metacognitive confidence judgments in curiosity: Different effects of confidence on curiosity across epistemic and perceptual domains

M Sakaki, A Ten, H Stone, K Murayama - Cognitive Science, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Previous research suggests that curiosity is sometimes induced by novel information one
has no relevant knowledge about, but it is sometimes induced by new information about …

The unique contribution of uncertainty reduction during naturalistic language comprehension

M Song, J Wang, Q Cai - Cortex, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Language comprehension is an incremental process with prediction. Delineating
various mental states during such a process is critical to understanding the relationship …

Interpersonal Curiosity: A Missing Construct in the Field of Human Development

N Way, R Taffe - Human Development, 2024‏ - karger.com
Children demonstrate a remarkable capacity for both intellectual and interpersonal curiosity,
reflecting their desires to know about the physical, material, and natural world and about the …

Curiosity and reward after unsuccessful memory recall

G Brooks, S Köhler - Consciousness and Cognition, 2025‏ - Elsevier
Curiosity is a motivational state characterized by the desire to obtain knowledge. Prior
research suggests that metacognitive experiences during unsuccessful memory recall may …

Does curiosity adaptively vary with ecological contexts? A correlational study with socioeconomic status.

E Dubourg, N Baumard - Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 2024‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Recent advances in behavioral ecology suggest that curiosity, as an adaptive behavioral
trait, should display some degree of plasticity across ecologies. In particular, it should be …

[PDF][PDF] Is interesting knowledge a reward? An integrative model of emotion, reward and appraisal frameworks of epistemic curiosity

A Erdemli, C Audrin, D Sander - Preprint at https://doi. org/10.31234/osf. io …, 2024‏ - osf.io
Is interesting knowledge a reward? To tackle this question, we review drive, optimal arousal,
intrinsic motivation, uncertainty reduction (ie information-gap), emotion and reward accounts …

Response to the critiques (and encouragements) on our critique of motivation constructs

K Murayama, H Jach - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2025‏ - cambridge.org
The target article argued that motivation constructs are treated as black boxes and called for
work that specifies the mental computational processes underlying motivated behavior. In …

Interpersonal Curiosity: A Missing Construct in the Field of Human Development

NWR Taffe - 2024‏ - karger.com
Children demonstrate a remarkable capacity for both intellectual and interpersonal curiosity,
reflecting their desires to know about the physical, material, and natural world and about the …

[PDF][PDF] Interactions between memory and reward systems

JH Poh, RA Adcock - 2024‏ - poh-brainmemlab.github.io
We draw on memories of our past experience to guide future decisions and behaviors. To
enable effective access to relevant memories, our brain needs to adaptively prioritize …